The photo shows a view of snowy Main Street from the corner of 12th. There is a woman walking away from the viewer on the left side of the street and a man facing toward the camera on the right.
A white boat with canopy named the "Vici" is pulled slightly onto the bank of a stream. Two men sit on a log in the background behind it; they could possibly be Peter B. Hoffmann Sr. and Emil Youngblood.
A railroad track curves along the left bank of the Mississippi. The Julien Dubuque monument is visible on a bluff, and on the one beyond it there is Mount Carmel.